Youth in Action - Focusing the Nation on World Solutions
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Youth in Action
Focusing the Nation on World Solutions
Focus the Nation is the organizing force sparking teams of faculty and students at 1,000 U.S. colleges, universities and K-12 schools now collaboratively engaged in a nationwide project to address global warming solutions for America. Their first priority is to mobilize enough citizens to get national legislation on climate change "at the forefront of American politics."
Initial efforts will culminate January 31, 2008, at simultaneous symposia held at community campuses, places of worship, businesses and civic organizations. Here students will invite local, state and federal political leaders to participate in the discussion. Each school will vote on its top five national priorities for global warming action to produce a campus-endorsed policy agenda for the 2008 elections.
In a post-peak-oil, post-water-shortage world, "a second world is possible," maintains project director Eban Goodstein. It can be one in which "we rewire the planet with clean energy solutions, create millions of jobs and lay the foundation for a just and sustainable society."
For information, visit FocusTheNation.org.
